Word: wholeness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...taxing power but specifically on the powers of Congress to: 1) regulate interstate commerce, and 2) promote the general welfare. As a further safeguard against the Court, the drafters of the AAA of 1938 inserted a provision separating the Act into sections dealing with each crop, so that the whole Act could not be thrown out by one adverse decision. But perhaps the strongest safeguard was arithmetic. Of the five Justices whose majority opinion threw out the AAA of 1938, neither Willis Van Devanter nor George Sutherland will ever write a Supreme Court opinion...
...after 1824. But the island of Singapore (in Malayan "Lion City''), a feverish mush of mangrove roots and black mud 27 miles long by 14 broad, was practically uninhabited until far-sighted Sir Stamford Raffles set up a trading settlement on the island in 1819. had the whole island ceded to the East India Co. five years later...
Breaking a six months' silence, Keye DeW. Metcalf, Director of the University Library, yesterday made his first statement of policy since taking up his duties last September. 'I shall make it my task to increase the efficiency of the library system as a whole," he said, "and to coordinate--not to centralize--the many, many libraries under my jurisdiction...
Although the Crimson squad was well supported by a sizable audience, the alleymen were immediately thrown into a pandemonium of sorrow. Discouraged mutterings, expressions of disgust with the whole match, and general sadness prevailed in the Harvard ranks, for all the Yard cops had taken their turns. But George DePinto had one string left to bowl...
...tells the story of the game. The first two periods produced extremely dull and slow hockey. The Tigers held a 2-1 lead going into the third period. But after Turner had made it 3-1 for the Orange and Black at 4:11 in the final chapter, the whole complexion of the game was completely changed...